redewenur wrote:
"- If both were nothing but human inventions, what alternative would remain for reality? Can it be anything but a case of one or the other?"

I'm with Ellis on this and I think he is correct. I think there very clearly is an alternative and that alternative is to stay away from absolutes.

We have the ability to make, within the context of what we know, decisions. I can choose to type UPPER CASE or not. There is no more evidence that would support the belief that my doing so was predetermined or the work of an invisible purple rhinoceros than there is proof that an invisible purple rhinoceros exists. Call that free will if you wish.

But it is not absolutist free will. I can not live to be 250 years old. No matter how much I may wish it.

DA Morgan